Too often, migrating to Alfresco can be seen as a massive undertaking where the migration effort means moving all the content, integrations and people to the new platform in a migrate all at once, "Big Bang” approach. Given the effort to move all the different components, along with training the users on a new system, it is easy to see why so many legacy ECM systems are still around today as their owners can, when confronted with this daunting task, choose to “wait until next year”. ... [Continue Reading]

Many users rely on PDF viewing, annotation, and manipulation tools when working with documents, especially in case management scenarios such as policy and claim document management within the Insurance industry. In many of these systems, users are forced to download PDFs to the local machine in order to work with the document within Adobe Acrobat. However, with modern browser technologies, it is possible to streamline this process by doing more in the web browser, side-stepping the need to ... [Continue Reading]

A few weeks ago, we compared building a search interface using OpenContent Management Suite vs. Alfresco's ADF framework. In the post, we were able to configure a search interface in OCMS in less than 10 minutes. For this post, we will look at building a Case Management interface in OCMS. ... [Continue Reading]

As our clients add more and more capabilities to OpenContent Case, one of our big new exciting developments will be the ability to extract proactive insight into the documents themselves based client definition of critical terms. This post will describe and present our initial solution for proactively identifying key terms for a case with a medical claim folder example. This post will also present our case analytic roadmap for adding additional analytics capabilities, including date ... [Continue Reading]

One of our product development additions to the OpenContent Case this quarter is adding the folder bulk redact action for all documents within the folder with either Alfresco, Documentum, AWS or Hadoop. As detailed earlier in our Redacting Roadmap, both OpenMigrate and the OpenContent Management Suite will have capabilities surrounding the redaction of specific values. This post will focus on demonstrating how OpenContent Case can be used to redact content, particularly focused on a case ... [Continue Reading]

See how OpenContent Policy & Claim can help your company modernize its Insurace Content Management Process.
TSG will be at IASA next week, June 3rd-6th at Booth 257. Be sure to stop by and check out our OpenContent Policy and Claim solution, OpenAnnotate Video and Alfresco.
TSG excels in assisting both large and small insurance carriers and MGAs modernize their claims processing experience with Alfresco. With digital content in the insurance world on the rise (Video, Rich Media, ... [Continue Reading]

Based on our experience with multiple insurance clients, TSG has developed a common user requirements template for management of digital documentation. For current clients, we often use this as a starting point when discussing goals of the new system. For those clients looking to update their documentation methods, we are happy to provide this as a free starting point. As this requirements document will continue to grow over time as new technologies emerge, please check base often for ... [Continue Reading]

We have recently seen many of our insurance clients asking what they can do about any PII (Personally identifiable information) and PHI (Protected Health information) that is in the documents they receive from various sources in their ECM repositories. TSG released OpenRedact as a product to help solve this problem by allowing users to manually redact portions of the document to hide some of this sensitive information. This post is going to outline the newest enhancement to OpenRedact to allow ... [Continue Reading]

Due to the success of the insurance event we held in Chicago in May, TSG is partnering with Alfresco to take our presentation on the road. What better place than the "Insurance Capital of the World," - Hartford, Connecticut! Regardless of industry, TSG has always found that our clients are most successful when they work together, and insurance is no exception.
Modern Insurance Platforms for Claim Documentation will take place on the morning of Sept 28th at the Connecticut Convention Center, ... [Continue Reading]

TSG is partnering with Alfresco and Claimwire to host a morning event on May 4th entitled Modern Insurance Platforms for Claim Documentation. The teaser video below gives a short tour of some of the functionality that will be discussed. Be sure to check out the event overview for more information on the event. ... [Continue Reading]

TSG is partnering with Alfresco and Claimwire to host a morning event on May 4th entitled Modern Insurance Platforms for Claim Documentation. Compared to our first 15 years of our ECM practice when Life Sciences and other compliance applications like manufacturing and plant operations drove most of the innovation in the ECM space, we have been seeing an uptick in financial services over the last 5 years and particularly claims management for the Insurance industry. This post will highlight ... [Continue Reading]

Join us in downtown Chicago on May 4th for an insurance industry briefing. Take this opportunity to meet with others in the industry and learn how they are using modern ECM platforms to reinvent the insurance industry and make their business run more efficiently.
Years ago, insurance companies pioneered the adoption of automated document imaging to capitalize on the benefits of going paperless. As the digital age has transformed customer interaction, insurance companies are struggling to ... [Continue Reading]

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alfresco Software, a leading provider of modern enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, announced that the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association (NYPIUA), in conjunction with Alfresco partner Technology Services Group (TSG), is leveraging Alfresco One, an ECM platform and TSG’s High Performance Interface (HPI) as its new policy and claim management solution. The Alfresco and TSG ECM solution was chosen ... [Continue Reading]

Insurance Networking News published a great article discussing how TSG helped New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association (NYPIUA) create a contemporary case file management system using HPI on top of Alfresco. Learn more about how important these systems are to insurers like NYPIUA, who offers basic property insurance to people who can’t get coverage in the voluntary market.
Document management is the first step in our administrative overhaul,” says Dane Austin, NYPIUA’s president. ... [Continue Reading]

"A Promise Delivered"
New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association (NYPIUA) shares their success story replacing their legacy mainframe ECM with the help of Technology Services Group. Built on TSG's HPI interface and backed by the power of Alfresco, NYPIUA's new ECM is built on modern technology, easily extensible, and easy to integrate with other systems.
See how NYPIUA uses TSG's HPI, OpenMigrate, and OpenAnnotate for their daily policy and claim management, enabling them to keep ... [Continue Reading]

One of the more interesting usages for machine learning is the potential to speed up and add efficiency to the indexing of documents. At TSG, we are currently adding this capability to our document indexing application. This post will describe the current methods of indexing from the major vendors and how an ECM 2.0 solution […]

Too often, migrating to Alfresco can be seen as a massive undertaking where the migration effort means moving all the content, integrations and people to the new platform in a migrate all at once, “Big Bang” approach. Given the effort to move all the different components, along with training the users on a new system, […]